Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Consumer approach to software for business users. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

PayPal failed in 2000 at its stated mission to invent a new form of currency (though it pivoted to something else), but Bitcoin seems to be succeeding in 2016. WebVan failed at grocery delivery in 2000, but InstaCart might succeed in 2016. Social Media makes group-games viral. Where → Why here?

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San Francisco Startup Framework Azure 170

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Microsoft and Apple believed that microprocessors would allow consumers to have their own computers.

Cofounder 28

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

We are a better humanity thanks to the work of journalists, I hope the industry finds a sustainable business model. I have a massive bias against the current click-bait, let’s go viral , “hot story of the moment” traffic. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews. It is not hard to pick New Subscriptions.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The first did a “purchase credits&# model like iStockphoto where you then burn down the credits you bought. They realized for them this was dumb because people didn’t want to use up their credits so viral adoption wasn’t happening quickly enough. They switched to a flat rate model and sharing went up immediately.

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